Scientist > Prof. Dr Marko D. Mihovilovic

Prof. Dr Marko D. Mihovilovic

// graduated in technical chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology in 1993, also receiving his doctorate from the same university in 1996, in the field of organic synthetic chemistry

// Post-doc placements as an Erwin Schrödinger scholarship holder then followed at the University of New Brunswick (Canada) and the University of Florida (USA), in the fields of biocatalysis and molecular biology

// Returning to VUT, he set up his own research group in 1999

// He completed his habilitation in 2003 in bio-organic chemistry and was appointed Associate Professor in 2004

// Marko Mihovilovic has been Head of the Institute for Applied Synthetic Chemistry at VUT since 2003 and was recently appointed as Full Professor for Bioorganic Synthetic Chemistry (February 2014)

Contact: laborundmore@succidia.de

Re-creating cardiac tissue

A Heart in a Petri Dish - von Prof. Dr Marko D. Mihovilovic

For medical research in the 21st century, regenerative medicine offers one of the most promising futures and prospects for further development. Revolutionary results have already been achieved by the efforts of genetic engineering, although ethical and regulatory aspects mean that such methods are unlikely to see widespread deployment.

A complementary approach is now being pursued by the application of small-molecule compounds: a rapidly growing...